| A | B |
|---|
| Herbert Hoover | President - believed in voluntary cooperation of labor and management |
| speculation | high risk investments in order to obtain large profits in the stock market |
| Black Tuesday | Day the stock market collapsed |
| business cycle | Periodic growth and contraction of the economy |
| Great Depression | period of unemployment and faltering economy |
| Hawley-Smoot Tariff | protective import tax authorized by Congress |
| bread line | line of people waiting for food handouts |
| Hooverville | homeless people shantytown |
| tenant farmer | farm worker - doesn't own land |
| Dust Bowl | Area created by dust and drought |
| Okies | Dust bowl refugees |
| repatriation | encouragement for Mexican immigrants to return to Mexico |
| localism | programs are solved at a state and local level |
| Reconstruction Finance Corp | gov. loans to railroads and businesses |
| trickle-down economics | money poured into businesses would trickle down to workers |
| Hoover Dam | Dam project to put people to work |
| Bonus Army | veterans who came to Washington to ask for their bonus early |
| Douglas MacArthur | General who moved out the Bonus Army |
